One person is dead following a collision involving a pickup truck and a dump truck in Palgrave, Ont., west of Newmarket.

Provincial police say the southbound Dump truck hauling a secondary trailer known as a “pup,” hit a northbound pickup truck head on. A northbound SUV also collided with the dump truck.

Rescue crews worked for hours to free the driver from the pickup, but he did not survive his injuries.

The other two drivers were taken to a hospital in Orangeville with unspecified injuries.

No names or ages have been released.

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A man was injured yesterday when the dump truck he was driving overturned on Interstate 295.

The accident occurred just before 6 a.m. on the northbound side of the interstate near the Route 38 interchange, a Burlington County Central Communications supervisor said.

The driver was flown to Cooper University Hospital in Camden for treatment of unspecified injuries, the supervisor said.

Cleanup of the accident was ongoing as of 9:30 a.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. Traffic was backed up on the northbound side due to lane closures.

Toyota Motor Corp.’s Tundra, the automaker’s first direct challenge to large pickup trucks from General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., beat out those models to be named Motor Trend magazine’s 2008 Truck of the Year.

The Japanese automaker’s revamped Tundra, on sale since February, was chosen over vehicles including GM’s Silverado and Ford’s F-150, the two top-selling U.S. pickups, the Los Angeles- based magazine said today on its Web site.

“Toyota is pulling no punches by introducing one of the biggest, strongest and most capable vehicles in the segment, as well as investing billions in a new state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in the heart of truck country — San Antonio,” Motor Trend said.

Automakers use such awards, along with rankings from magazines like Consumer Reports and research companies such as J.D. Power & Associates, in their marketing. Tundra U.S. sales this year rose jumped 58 percent through November to 177,336, while Ford’s F-Series models fell 12 percent to 635,520 and GM’s Silverado declined 3.3 percent to 564,697.

Toyota passed Ford this year to become second in U.S. sales of cars and light trucks, behind GM. The Toyota City, Japan-based company is challenging GM for the worldwide lead.

Ford Motor Co. has temporarily shut down at least two factories that build large pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles amid tepid demand, a spokeswoman said.

A Dearborn, Mich., plant that builds F-150 pickups and a Louisville, Ky., plant that builds Explorer SUVs went dark starting Monday – two weeks ahead of their normally scheduled holiday shutdowns, said the spokeswoman, Anne Marie Gattari.

Both plants will remain closed the rest of the year, people familiar with the matter said. The moves are part of Ford’s efforts to “align capacity with demand,” Ms. Gattari said.

The Dearborn plant will resume production at the start of the New Year, Ms. Gattari said. Workers are also scheduled to return to the Louisville factory just after New Year’s, a person familiar with the matter said.

Ford, along with Detroit competitors General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC, has suffered sharp sales declines among its pickups and SUVs. F-Series pickups are off 12.4% through November, while Explorer sales have plunged 23.5%, according to Autodata Corp. Overall, Ford-brand light-duty truck sales, which include pickups and SUVs, have dropped 6.1%.

Detroit’s Big Three auto makers are feeling the pain of plummeting real-estate values and surging fuel prices, both of which have sapped consumer spending. In addition, a marked decline in residential construction has damped sales of Detroit’s profitable pickups. Ford has tended to suffer the most from that trend, as its F-Series trucks are used a disproportionate amount in the home-construction business.

In addition to December shutdowns, Ford will likely temporarily idle some factories in January as part of a 7% first-quarter production cut.

Ford has generally declined to discuss specific factory plans for January but George Pipas, the auto maker’s top sales analyst, said the company would likely target plants building pickups and SUVs for shutdowns or scaled-back overtime as part of the first-quarter production pullback.

Chrysler plans to halt production at truck plants in Warren, Mich., and Fenton, Mo., right before Christmas and extend the shutdown through all of January, according to people familiar with the auto maker’s plans. A third truck plant in Mexico will shut down for the first two weeks of January.

General Motors has said it will temporarily idle three pickup-truck plants for two weeks in January, in addition to the traditional holiday shutdown.

The star of the Frankfurt Motor Show, the Lamborghini Reventon raced against a fighter aircraft at the picturesque Ghedi military airport in Brescia in the last week of November 2007.

This extraordinary acceleration race between a Tornado aircraft (A200-A) and the Lamborghini Reventon driven by an official Lamborghini test driver was a magical spectacle. As the aircraft and the Lamborghini challenged each other on the 3000 m-long runway, the Reventon took the lead in the first leg of the race. However, the Tornado caught up in the last few meters, taking off and flying over the Reventon that was racing at a speed of over 340 km an hour.

The military runway was also the venue for Lamborghini to present its super car to international TV channels. According to an auto news report, the Lamborghini Reventon has been designed by the Centro Stile Lamborghini and perfected down to the finest detail in close collaboration with Lamborghini’s R&D management. The Reventon which has drawn inspiration from the world’s fastest aircraft in modern aviation brings to the world’s roads features like precise and technically impressive style, clean surfaces and a grey-green exterior.

Priced at not less that Euro 1 million plus taxes, the company has rolled out only 20 Reventon cars available. Incidentally, all these 20 machines have been sold, though they will be built and delivered only in 2008.

At the recent Frankfurt Motor Show, the Lamborghini Reventon had won the Most Beautiful Automobile in the World 2007 award in the special models category. Car buffs had then said that the vehicle was destined to become a new legend in the fascinating history of Lamborghini.

Honda is all set to bring in the 2008 Civic Hybrid edition to the Indian car market.

Significantly, when this happens, Honda would become the first company to launch a hybrid car in the Indian market. According to a report, the hybrid Civic would come loaded with a combustion engine integrated with an electric powered motor. The car would switch between the two engines as and when required to save on fuel. This model is likely to give a fuel efficiency of around 20 kmpl.

Targeting added volumes, Honda looks at launching the hybrid version with a view that the Indian customers would go for it. The company aims at bringing in an environment-friendly technology to India. It already sells the Civic Hybrid globally. It has been reported that Honda Siel Car India, the Indian arm of Honda Motor Company, is trying to make bring in the Civic hybrid in 2008.

Reports added that the Civic hybrid will be the first mass produced hybrid car to hit Indian roads. The Japanese car maker had launched the hybrid version of the Civic in 2003, and the version that will debut on Indian soil would be the 2008 Civic Hybrid. The car which burns less fuel and provides a mileage which is double of the petrol version at around 20 kmpl, when compared with the petrol version which turns out a 130bhp, will give around 110bhp, said automobile writers.

Honda is expected to import completely built units of the model. A steep import duty will push the price of the car to nearly Rs 20 lakh, it is believed.

The auto industry and its allies in Congress are lobbying congressional leaders and the Bush administration to back fuel efficiency increases that would maintain separate standards for passenger cars and trucks.

The industry opposes a plan that was approved in the Senate last June that would increase fuel economy standards on new vehicles to 35 miles per gallon by 2020. In 2008, cars must average 27.5 mpg and trucks need to reach 22.5 mpg.

Auto executives have been making their case to the Bush administration about the energy bill and a regulatory plan on vehicle emissions being developed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department.

The industry, along with agriculture and recreational groups, back an alternative led by Reps. Baron Hill, D-Ind., and Lee Terry, R-Neb., that would seek a combined standard of 32 to 35 mpg by 2022 along with separate standards for cars and Trucks.

Environmental groups say the proposal does not go far enough to reduce oil consumption and want the final energy bill to include fuel economy standards passed by the Senate.

“Any energy bill that has the Senate fuel economy compromise in it guarantees oil savings,” the Sierra Club’s Ann Mesnikoff said Friday. “The Hill-Terry bill is a weaker goal.”

General Motors Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Rick Wagoner on Tuesday met with Al Hubbard, director of the National Economic Council, Nicole Nason, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and EPA officials to discuss energy issues.

Ford President and CEO Alan Mulally is expected to be in Washington next week to discuss the energy bill and fuel economy regulations.

“It’s quite clear that there are a variety of efforts both legislative and administrative that are under way and could potentially come to a close this year,” said GM spokesman Greg Martin. “So it’s important that we clearly state what our positions are and our concerns on the details.”

In a letter to White House chief of staff Josh Bolten on Friday, Hill and Terry and 62 other lawmakers urged the Bush administration to support their alternative.

They said their approach was more realistic and would “protect good-paying American manufacturing jobs, preserve consumer choice in auto vehicles and set achievable timetables for compliance.”

In a separate letter, 13 Senate Democrats, led by Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, urged Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to ensure that the energy bill includes job protections for small car production.

The Senate measure would eliminate the so-called “two-fleet rule,” which keeps different mileage standards for cars and trucks and end the different calculations used for vehicles made overseas and in North America. The United Auto Workers union has said eliminating the separation would lead to a loss of 17,000 jobs involved in small car production in the United States.

“We believe that these policies should be aimed at promoting - and ultimately expanding - manufacturing jobs in the United States,” the senators wrote. It was signed by Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Barack Obama of Illinois, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Joe Biden of Delaware.

A group of senators, including Michigan Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, wrote congressional leaders earlier this week in support of the alternative.